Name of the Circulation/Collection Management Software:
Sirsi Dynix Symphony Work Flows 3.4.0J
Evaluator (Your Name):
Kathleen McKim
Description of the most user-friendly feature:
no user-friendly features at all, but purported better search capabilities
Benefit of this feature to students:
theoretically possible to request books
theoretically possible to perform visual search
possibility of self check-out
Benefit of this feature to educators:
theoretically possible to request books
theoretically possible to perform power- and advanced searches
Benefit of this feature to library administration:
none at present
system is full of errors and program glitches
Description of a weakness of this software:
visual search unappealing for elementary school students
system is not fully operational
system is not customizable
Additional ideas for the creative use of this software:
(These can be your own ideas or ideas you have read about or discussed with the librarian interviewee.)
possible to perform searches by reading and/or grade level, which will be helpful for creating collections reflective of student data as reported by MAP or other reading testing
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(These can be your own ideas or ideas you have read about or discussed with the librarian interviewee.)